Wednesday, February 17, 2016

China's Two Child Policy



Many may argue that they should not be prohibited to having two children. But, China feels otherwise. About thirty years ago the Communist Party passed a law that was extremely harsh. Their citizens were only allow to have one child, preferably a little boy. The Communist Party believe that this would be the best way to control the population and demographics in their country. They realize that it didn’t solve much but they did see a fertility decline. Five years after passing the one child policy, the county, Yicheng figure that one more child wouldn’t hurt. So they passed a law that allow the citizens to have two children. Mr.Liang Zhongtang of the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences hoped it would become national in 2000. But it didn’t. It wasn’t brought to many attention until 2010. Three years later is when the two child policy law was granted. "When China relaxed its policy in 2013, allowing people who were only children to have a second child, only 12% of those eligible applied." The Chinese people were so govern to only having one child that when the two child policy was in place it didn't really have an effect on whether they wanted a second child. How would you feel if you were only limited to having a certain amount of children. And if you were to have more than one or two children you could be fine or at risk of losing your job? That's imbalanced and no justice for the Chinese. They are imprisoned by their own government. If the US was to adapt a policy of such nature, there would be chaos everywhere. I can say that the one child policy does allow the government to control what is going on in their country. It can help control unemployment, funding problems, poverty, over population, and many more issues. On the other hand, it is a violation of the people’s right, it would be hard on the one child, and abortion rates will rise. With the two child policy in place the younger children, who can also be considered the boomers, can help take care of the elders in the country.   


 


 


 


 


 


 




 


 


 


 


 


 

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